There are no good Republicans.
None. Zip Zilch Zero None Of Them Not A Single Pleasant Person.
They are a revolting corrupt embezzlement ring with literally zero redeeming qualities
Fuck Trump and his spineless boot licking thugs and Fuck Massie and his rose-tinted followers.
Release the Epstein files transparency proposition WITHOUT that gun obsessed bigoted hack’s contribution or prosperity.
As a former gun nut, if those are legit fully automatic weapons that are registered, they are holding around $100K-275k in firearms. The tommy gun alone is around $25k+. That M60 is about $60-150k and M16’s are around $18-25k each. Flashing your insecurity as well as your wealth to your constituents is a…choice.
Not when your constituency is also equally as pro gun… which Kentucky is.
True, and most gun people are too stupid to learn about the NFA world and how expensive legal fully automatic firearms are, so they wouldn’t know the flex this picture actually is and would just say “YEAHHHHH, 'MERICA!!” and vote for him again while their family struggles to afford insurance.
I don’t have to agree with everything he does to agree with him on one thing.
If a politician made a post like this in any other country they’d be lucky to just be laughed out of government.
The fact that they find behavior like this normal just shows how deranged and unhinged they actually are
Looks very christian
He’s still the only politician that took action to get rid of AIPAC. I hate most if what he does, but if everyone agrees with something and it still doesn’t pass, people got bought and democracy is a farce.
Rechurchicans
Little girl’s got no muzzle control, she’s about to dome her mama with a negligent discharge.
Santa, forget the ammo. Bring basic weapons handling/safety manuals
If you have an R after your name, I assume you’re a pedophile. Obviously you are ok with child rape to continue to be in the Regressive Party (aka the Pedo Party)…
That photo continues looking crazier and crazier. What a sign of a sick society for families to pose in their living room and holiday garb while all carry modern weapons. Guns can be fun, but they’re dangerous tools intended to kill. Sometimes there’s good reason to kill, but it should be a solemn task
That girl cradling her gun as its barrel is pointed right at her mom’s head is the most insane part.
A gun is just a tool. That family looks scary because the tool they love has only one purpose… To kill. If you’re bad at it you can scare or mame. To not be bad at it you have to practice.
But imagine the same picture with the family holding butchering knives, or hammers, or a drill or a broom or guitars. Any of those objects are fine. But the message really changes when everyone is holding the tool like they’re ready to use it. I use my mind a lot. In my family pictures we hold up our minds.
About $100k of iron in that pic (assuming the 60/uzi/Thompson are all fully functional and not just replica/semi auto.
I have mine because they have theirs.
And who profits but the gun manufacturers, while net societal safety drops.
Well you may want to look up how gun control came to be a talking point, and why Fred Hampton was viewed as such a threat, he was murdered in his bed, next to his pregnant, sleeping wife (hint: youth breakfast and exercise program).
I wasn’t going to share the story because I felt it too dark. But a coworker years ago told me the first people he would kill in the “shit hits the fan” scenario is his neighbors because they would be the first to ask for help/target him.
The fact that a single nut job is out there thinking this was enough to adjust my stance on owning fire arms.
I keep thinking that USA is just a Vault Tec experiment in human behaviour under constant pressures.
Vault Tec is just a reflection of very real government behavior.
For real, they do all that experimentation out in the open. No vaults required.
Gun manufacturers are a part of society, and a very rich part.
The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides. More than the top six suppliers combined (including China and Russia).
Every state in the union is part of the arms industry. Even Hawaii.
The entire world demands guns, and the USA provides.
Most of the guns used in crimes in Canada and Mexicr were smuggled in from the USA.
A truly moral society wouldn’t be providing the weapons that criminals demand.
I do by having a bunch of really cool guns
Go far enough left and keep your guns. Also, blessing Chairman Fred and Comrade Newton.
Only until the revolution though. Then they get taken away again.
Reagan pushed gun control.
Wow Reagan was a leftist? Just how far right are you bro?
“Reading comprehension it’s above me bro!” 🤓
Relevance? We are talking about “far enough left”, just a reminder.
Don’t paint revolutions the same. Material conditions are analyzed, policy is formed and applied.
Honestly, that’s much lower than I expected. Knowing very little about firearm costs (haven’t shot anything since college), I would have guessed probably double that.
Guns are a lot cheaper than you’d expect. An ar-15 is like $500 for a simple build. Most handguns are similar. The ones here are only expensive because they’re machine guns
and no braincell in between them, they sold it to buy all those guns.
You’d think they’d be able to afford ammo, then. :)
Whether you like guns or not, making them your entire personality is so cringe.
Honestly, you can say that about most things. If you make your identity any one thing it’s cringe. Go experience the world and open your interests to a diverse set.
But other things might not be exclusively used for killing living beings. In the case of the weapons in that image, primarily humans.
Only things my guns kill are steel targets and the odd deer when I can get tags
Yes, but I don’t think that changes the cringe aspect. It changes the unhinged potentially dangerous aspect though.
Uhh what we would these weapons be used secondarily for?
Compensating.
Still killing living beings, but of the animal variety for food. Or, as a hobby to enjoy at the range. That’s what mine are for.
If the first round doesn’t stop the deer the rest of the clip will I suppose.
Bonus: You don’t have to grind the meat up after you dress it.
If they hunt replace deer with boar and your technically wrong, I once met a guy who hunted boars with a Browning Automatic Rifle.
It’s a legit problem in some southern states. The feral hog population is destroying crops. I know someone that ranches goats and he says he carries an AR15 with 300BLK with him when he checks on his goats. He also said the hogs have killed enough of his goats that he hasn’t made any profit in them in the past couple years. It’s a very specific use case, but a real one.
30-40 feral hogs
I once met a guy who hunted geese with a slingshot. That was impressive skill, not impressively stupid.
You’re assuming a lot about which tool I’ve selected for which job, and you’re wrong.
Sure.
Making “exploring the world” your thing is so cringe. All those insta and tinder profiles with the same travel photos. Fuck off.
I feel like if I explored the world the only photos you’d have of it are random ass birds, weird roadkill, and probably the inside of some Soviet bunker or some shit. I went to the grand canyon some years ago and the only video I took was of a goat at the flintstones thing and a squirrel tweaking out on the side of the cliff.
I did explore the world. This included war zones. I didn’t feel like making a selfie with a dead baby on the side of the road, to post it on my tinder profile with the text “I love traveling”. Or with someone’s head split open by a sniper shot, with the text “I guess we’ll eat shoarma tonight #localstreetfood”.
“I love exploring the world” basically means “I love to make selfie photo’s at tourist attractions to show off I make more money than you, while at the same time not giving a shit about the culture, the people, the history, the country I visit because those poor people are ewww”
Honestly, I can’t see a single reason why someone would “like” guns.
Engineering is my main draw. That and knowing my sister would be dead today without hers.
Eh, I grew up doing shooting competitions as a kid. My grandfather was a semi-famous trick shooter back when that was a thing, so it was something I grew up doing.
I hunt too, meat prices are insane right now and a few deer go a long way when frozen or otherwise preserved right, I don’t mind having to butcher and dress it myself. I’m not gonna stop eating meat in this lifetime, them animals are way way too tasty.
I like guns, but this photo is cringe to me too. I’m a Fudd in the gun community. Revolvers, lever-action repeaters, and shotguns are all I mess with, and I’d be more than comfortable banning all high capacity guns.
Depends on where you live, how you grew up, and your hobbies.
I realize it’s a foreign concept to some who grew up in an urban/metropolitan area and are otherwise surrounded by concrete, buildings and lots of people.
I grew up with 3000 acres of woods behind my house. Didn’t own them but had unrestricted access. I like guns but despise people like the one in this image.
That picture is terrifying.
Typical American family portrait. I think they lend those to you at Sears if you forget to bring your own.
Don’t spread misinformation.
No one is getting their family photos at Sears anymore.
We get them at Walmart now, but we have to take them ourselves at a kiosk. Next to the ammo dispenser.
typical white RIGHT wing ammosexul family portrait.
You could probably take them all out with a Glock. I doubt they ever train with them, it’s all show.
Kinda like the people with gun manufacturer stickers on their vehicle. Either cosplay or telling people they’re an easy $100 for anyone with a brick. Serious gun owners don’t advertise it.
Mom’s got her’s pointed right at the son she hates
Just noticed that, at least they’re practicing trigger discipline.
And the mags are out, very likely all unloaded and chamber checked prior to staging this shot.
To me the scary thing is the idea of giving the uh, seemingly least physically strong person the Uzi.
Its not loaded, but theres a good chance this one is a pre-ban full auto, and those things kind of notoriously kick wildly on full auto if its 45acp or 41ae.
She’s ready in case he gets mouthy.
The pre-1986 ban M60 he’s holding and the BAR she has are 50-100K each.
If the FAL is full auto, it wouldn’t be that much less expensive.
That’s a Thompson, not a BAR.
A BAR would be about the same size as the M60. BAR shoots 30.06 (7.62x63), actually longer rounds than the M60 (7.62x51), usually had a bipod, thing’s pretty big.
If she was holding a BAR in that same position, the barrel end and bipod would be on or past the hand of redshirt son behind her.
A Thompson on the other hand is a sub machine gun, 9x19, much closer in overall size to what we’d now call a carbine or short barelled rifle, its roughly M4 sized.
Hard to tell the exact variant but its likely either the WW2 era M1928A1 or M1A1, they simplified and reinforced some bits of the design compared to the old ‘Chicago Typewriter’ version, for mass wartime production.